Low-income individuals in Wisconsin have a new resource for finding legal help today, as the State Bar of Wisconsin and legal technology company Paladin join forces to launch the statewide Pro Bono Opportunity Portal.
The portal, which can be found at probonowi.org, enables attorneys and law students to match their skills…
Legal research company Casetext is further extending Compose, its first-of-its-kind automated brief-drafting product, to cover a new practice area, products liability involving pharmaceuticals and medical devices.
Launched by Casetext last February, Compose helps automate the creation of the first draft of a litigation brief, significantly cutting the time the draft would normally…
Thomson Reuters is announcing two new features today: the Thomson Reuters Marketplace, an online store where users can research, demo, test and buy products and services, and Thomson Reuters Legal Home, a single point of entry where legal professionals can log in and access all their TR products.
The Marketplace, introduced as a…
Onit, the Houston company that provides enterprise workflow products for corporations and corporate legal departments, has acquired the New Zealand company McCarthyFinch, a provider of a suite of AI-driven contract management software designed to help automate contract reviews and approvals, and is unveiling two new AI products that incorporate the McCarthyFinch technology.
McCarthyFinch…
To say that Stevie Ghiassi is a busy man is an understatement. In addition to founding Legaler, a secure video meeting platform for lawyers,the Australia-born entrepreneur is the founder of the recently launched Legaler Aid, a charity…
Attention legal technology startups: Here is your chance to compete to be featured as a presenter and exhibitor in the fifth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW, the American Bar Association’s annual legal technology conference, to be held virtually on March 8-12, 2021.
Today officially kicks off…
Not long after Lucy Dillon joined Reed Smith as global chief knowledge officer in 2015, the firm embarked on a firmwide initiative to develop a culture of innovation. The initiative included giving lawyers billable credit for work on innovation projects and a summer associates program that focuses on legal technology.
Innovation projects that…
The usual weekly Legaltech Week journalists’ roundtable will not be held tomorrow, Nov. 13, due to a scheduling conflict.
We will be back at our normal time next Friday, Nov. 20, at 3 p.m. Eastern time.
Free registration is required to attend the weekly live broadcast, but you need only register once to be…
In a move to expand the legal transformation services it offers law firms and legal departments, the global company Epiq has acquired Hyperion Global Partners, a major provider of business and technology services to the legal profession.
Epiq, formed in 2016 out of the combination of Epiq Systems and DTI, and rebranded…
An email alert service launched today by legal research company Fastcase, COVID-19 Case Alerts, provides daily updates on new civil opinions, selected pleadings, breaking news, and analyses of legal issues related to the coronavirus pandemic.
The alerts, delivered each business day except holidays, provides a snapshot of the latest legal developments on COVID-19, Fastcase says.…
For startup companies that go through high-profile incubator programs or whose founders come from prestigious schools, the traditional word-of-mouth referral network works just fine for finding a lawyer to represent them.
But for many other startups, it can be difficult to find a lawyer they know they can trust and who is a good fit…
Minor legal infractions from the past can have major consequences in the present when they appear in public records, keeping some individuals from obtaining gainful employment.
A unique new app called Legal Tune Up is designed to help Wisconsin residents address that problem. It enables them to access public data to identify legal issues…
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